April, 2007
SitePal
By admin at April 10, 2007 | 3:54 am | 0 Comment
What can you use SitePal for?Business websites and blogs can use SitePal to:Welcome visitors with a friendly message Explain FAQs Give a tour of your website and point out special features Explain how to sign up for your RSS feed or your newsletter Increase sales on landing pages, by providing a virtual sales clerk to orient visitors who arrive after clicking through an more...
Analysis Of Online Venture Or Baby Boomers
By admin at April 10, 2007 | 3:25 am | 0 Comment
Looking for a growth market for your next online venture? Look no further than the 50+ market. The number of U.S. adults over age 50 will soar over the next ten years. In fact, U.S. Census Bureau data shows that 50+ adults will be the only growth demographic — measured by age — between now and 2015 as the massive Baby Boomer generation enters its 50s and 60s. Plenty more...
Business Pundit
By admin at April 10, 2007 | 3:17 am | 0 Comment
Tom Davenport explains why Enterprise Web 2.0 won't take off, but I think he misunderstands what it would be used for. No one thinks that all employees have equally good ideas about how to run the company. The point is to use processes that do allow good ideas to filter to the top, regardless of where they came from.Fortune wonders if Siberia will be the next Silicon more...
71 Miles
By admin at April 9, 2007 | 9:00 pm | 0 Comment
71 Miles is a new travel site with a blog twist (or is it a blog with a travel site twist?), designed to met the needs of urban-dwellers looking for a weekend getaway. Launched in Beta in Northern California, they plan to go national within the coming months covering destinations within driving distances of major metropolitan cities. Supplemented with interactive maps, more...
The Art Of Googling
By admin at April 9, 2007 | 8:40 pm | 0 Comment
The art of 'Googling' (checking people's backgrounds on the internet via search engine Google) -- which started out as a useful tool for weeding out psychopaths from the online dating game and performing a quick double-check on an applicant's claim about his or her astonishing career -- will soon be an integral part of corporate 1:1 marketing strategies. With consumers more...
Contact ,Would Be Enterprenures
By admin at April 9, 2007 | 4:11 am | 0 Comment
Garage Canada is the first international affiliate of Garage Technology Ventures in Palo Alto. This relationship with Silicon Valley, along with the team’s global connections, provide for direct access to a rich and diverse pool of technical and market expertise, in addition to invaluable follow-on investors, customers and value-added networks.Our team is supported by more...
How To Know Which Airline Is Offering Best Deal
By admin at April 9, 2007 | 4:06 am | 0 Comment
Say you are looking for a deal on an airline flight. The Internet abounds with offers for low fares. You can find them on the major Internet travel agent sites like Orbitz, Travelocity or on more specialized sites like Cheaptickets.com or Sidestep.com.Those can be useful, but they have limits. How do you know, for instance, that that low fare really is a deal? A number of more...
WbEx :Free Report ;Instant Messaging
By admin at April 9, 2007 | 3:43 am | 0 Comment
Free Report: Instant Messaging Tough Enough forBusinessBy Osterman Research IM is widely used in the workplace today, but unfortunately, most use of IM consists of consumer-grade IM clients. This free report demonstrates the benefits of IM in any size organization, the risks that organizations face from unmanaged IM use, and the factors that must be addressed as more...
41 pounds ,New Fighter Of Junk Mail
By admin at April 8, 2007 | 9:03 pm | 0 Comment
41pounds.org, junk mail battling organization. I hate junk mail more than anything– every time I open my mailbox and it’s overflowing with crap, I can’t help but to think how much of a waste it is. Why can’t Dominos Pizza use the freaking internet to advertise? Did you know that every year you get about (you guessed it) 41 lbs. of junk mail? 41pounds is equally more...
Etailer
By admin at April 8, 2007 | 8:10 pm | 0 Comment
Online retailer 20ltd sells no more than 20 items at a time, each of which are highly exclusive and only available in small numbers. Goods currently on offer range from GBP 2,900 white buffalo horn sunglasses (edition of 10), to a GBP 9,000 hammock covered in cashmere and black fox fur (thankfully for black foxes, only 5 of those were made). All items are exclusive to more...
Value Of Web 2.0 Start Ups
By admin at April 8, 2007 | 3:38 am | 0 Comment
So how much is a Web 2.0 startup really worth? Everyone is wondering that these days, especially since there are so few acquisitions or IPOs by which to measure them. That's why I like the slide below created by eSnips CEO Yael Elish. It gives an approximate value for many high-profile Web 2.0 sites by correlating publicly available Alexa Web traffic numbers with the more...
Drobo
By admin at April 8, 2007 | 3:25 am | 0 Comment
With a name like Drobo, you can't expect this robot to spit fire or scare little kids. Instead this $699 bot guards your hard drives from sudden death by automatically sensing when things go awry with one of your HDDs. Should it detect any data corruption, Drobo springs into action repairing any foul play. The enclosure can also detect and format up to four 3.5-inch SATA more...
Interview With Google CEO
By admin at April 7, 2007 | 10:50 am | 0 Comment
Among the topics they covered were:Anti-trust (with a beautiful deke to create “time and space” as we say in hockey)InnovationCompetitive advantagesMotivation of entrepreneursMaintaining the entrepreneurial spiritTraditional and non-traditional organization designWhat Microsoft and Yahoo does that impresses himInvention of disruptive technologies.For more...
AirBus With BMW design Interior
By admin at April 7, 2007 | 10:37 am | 0 Comment
Airplane interiors are boring. Why is there never any innovation? Well, BMW has changed that. The new Airbus A350 twinjet is being unveiled at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, and it has a BMW designed interior. Among the dozens of innovations, the roof lighting can dramatically change and the storage now enables two carry on bags per passenger. “There are more...
How To Attract Venture Captalist
By admin at April 7, 2007 | 10:29 am | 0 Comment
One of the participants asked a great question about how to get his attention as a company seeking VC funding. So here are the secrets (in order of importance) straight from the source on how to get Guy to pay his Venture Capitalist attention to you :Do your homework.VC firms specialize in many various industries. Garage Technology Ventures focuses on software, services, more...
Set Your Own Mobile Network
By admin at April 6, 2007 | 11:27 pm | 0 Comment
Sonopia works with Verizon to handle calls and data transfer, and lets anyone from a rock band to a church group set up their own mobile network brand. In return, the mini carrier will receive 3-8% of revenues generated by the customers they sign up. Brands create their own calling plans, get a co-branded website and are able to send their members messages about the more...
Bubble Guru
By admin at April 5, 2007 | 11:30 pm | 0 Comment
New application called BubbleGuru it allows you to record video footage from your webcam and then place it onto any website, in an email, etc. The idea behind it is that you can convey your ideas in a more realistic and candid way by recording video messages on the fly, and the messages, even once they’re embedded, won’t take up any extra space on the web page or more...
Managing Your travel Plans"TripSync"
By admin at April 5, 2007 | 12:49 am | 0 Comment
TripSync, an exciting new Web 2.0 app that allows you to book, change, and manage travel plans directly from your calendar. Once you use the easy drag and drop interface to book your flight, rental car, and hotel accommodations through an automatic search of leading global distribution systems, your travel data is uploaded to your calendar in Outlook. From that point, you more...
WhiskeyMilitia
By admin at April 5, 2007 | 12:41 am | 0 Comment
The new website WhiskeyMilitia sells one piece of marked-down skate/snow/surf gear for at least 50% off beginning each night at midnight MST until it’s gone. Sound familiar? It’s the same model as woot! and SteepandCheap, but for skaters instead of computer geeks or backcountry gear nerds. Today’s the first day, and there’s a Darkstar complete skateboard for more...
Is Twitter Safe?
By admin at April 4, 2007 | 3:04 am | 0 Comment
It seems that everyone is talking about Twitter, and while the service is seeing enormous growth and all the celebrity bloggers have started using it like their life depends on it, before you jump on the bandwagon, here are a few considerations to keep in mind.For More:http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/three-hidden-dangers-of-twitter.html more...
